According to the festival, among the experts are the best representatives of the industry from from Europe, Asia, North and South America.

Among the members of the KIAF jury are creative and art directors of leading international advertising agencies and creators of successful projects for well-known global brands.

On KIAF 2023 contest programme five international jury teams judge entries:
  • Jury Team 1 — PEACE
  • Jury Team 2 — Environment & Sustainability, Health & Well-Being; Culture / Local Solutions
  • Jury Team 3 — Human Rights, Justice & Strong Institutions, Partnership for the Goals, Children: Health / Safety / Happiness
  • Jury Team 4 — Gender Equality & LGBTQ Rights, Arts and Culture, Animal Care & Protection
  • Jury Team 5 — Poverty & Hunger, Education: Quality, Civic & Social Education, Prosperity: Economic Growth, Innovations, Industry

KIAF jury chairmembers are as follows:
  • Gaetan du Peloux, chief creative officer, Marcel, France
  • Bartek Klimaszewski, executive creative director, MOLECULAR Worldwide, Poland
  • Morten Grubak, executive creative director, Virtue Futures, Denmark
  • Edson Athayde, CEO and creative director, FCB Lisbon, Portugal, and
  • Nari Moon, creative director, INNOCEAN, South Korea.

See the full jury lineup from around the world here.

KIAF 2023 is dedicated exclusively to socially significant communications in advertising. The programme consists of 13 contests, each of which includes 11 categories, namely:
  1. Film
  2. Radio / Audio
  3. Print and Publishing
  4. Out-of-Home
  5. Design
  6. Digital and Mobile
  7. Social Media and Influence
  8. Integrated Campaigns
  9. PR Campaigns
  10. Direct Campaigns, and
  11. Activation Campaigns.

The festival takes place within the framework of the Ukrainian Creative Stories project. The organiser is the All-Ukrainian Advertising Coalition.

Entries submission is open on the website creative-stories.com.ua — the final deadline is on Friday, 21 April. The winners will be announced at the end of May.

The general partner is Nova Poshta. 

For more information, visit www.creative-stories.com.ua.